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Dorchester Painter Childe Hasham took a little liberty with the placement of the sun in this painting in order to get the sun right. If the sun ever sets in that position, we are in some version of the movie 2012.

I can't wait to buy my St. Patrick's Day decorations there to freshen up the Famine statues. It will be very convenient.

I worked on the Swan Boats in the late 1980's. Lee would come by from time to time. Granted he did do a lot for the Public Garden and the Common, but he also seemed to have a swagger about him that it was his park and everyone else were just guests of his in his front yard. I really feel that...

Re: Filene's Let's be vigilant on the streetscape design / interaction at these public meetings. This approval process sounds like it is going to be Son of Liberty Mutual.

Re: South End Construction Mostly State agencies and possibly some Tufts NMC back office. That building is over 100+ years old.

Re: South End Construction As a 13 year old (1982) I asked "Harry" how does he keep in business safely in the then really crappy area. He pulled up his shirt and showed me a revolver tucked into his belt. He told me he wasn't too worried with that in mix.

Hate to be a contrarian, but Columbus Square, despite its blob like shape spreading over sites would have done a lot to the area's streetscape and someone would have finally shovel the sidewalks over the Pike on Columbus Avenue and Berekley Streets.

Re: Malden Minor League Baseball Stadium @Beton Brut - Agreed Lafayette Place always had that feeling of I am going to be killed just around this curving, poorly lit hallway. The food court worked at first, I will give it that. It just felt like one of those hauted house rides with real...

The State Archives also has a good collection on the highway system and is far better organized that what the death of George Sanborn has wrought at 10 Park Plaza. I was in there last fall and saw three people asleep on tables near the stacks. The archives is far less letting you touch the...

Re: Peabody Essex's New Gallery This has Ned Johnson written all over it. I love when a 1 Percenter puts his vanity in the right place.

Hey!!! Wait a second. We need a commuter rail extension to New Bedford and Fall River first to tie these Gateway Cities and the miles and miles and years and years of track rebuilding involved first before you Commie Pinko Tracy Chapman CD buyers get your needed transit infrastrucure.

There is no tax on clothes in MA, remember? Some of the only things you could buy in Salem NH at a mall that would be taxed in MA is jewelery, some tools or a flat screen. Would you take the bother of lugging something on a train, say a 46 inch LCD or a table saw, to save a few bucks in tax...

Thanks, I guess my mail isn't as important as yours. With this logic, may I keep all my suburban tax money and stop funding urban housing projects so poor people can live in neighborhoods in which I used to be able to afford to live?

Nice thinking and all but you know the Tea Party controlled state legislature in NH is trying to rip everything it (or it may have already) can out of any passenger rail service on the Concord / Nashua corridor. Their thought process is why should they fund anything that brings people to jobs...

Re: Jacob Wirth's CBT is designing the building? Watch out Rem Koolhass. You're not welcome here. We got a hot firm on the rise with designs for the 21st century hitting the Combat Zone.

1. Level 3 Communications has a major cable going the length of the MassPike. It was put in 1999/2000. The former rail line that snakes up through Everett and Malden to Lynn has some kind of communications or gas line under it. 2. How many times does the power go out in certain areas go...

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower Or the work of a deep pockets developer looking to make money off of a desirable site wile correcting another "open space" disaster of the Death Race 2000 / Escape from New York era of urban planning. In the words of Glenn Ordway "What's Wrong With...

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower Don't forget Byron "My hair sort of does look like those pictures of Frederick Douglas" Rushing. During the last big recesssion (1992) he crushed a development plan in the Charlestown Navy Yard with calls of racist suffering if a planned tourist...

Yes, you are right. With that in mind I would like to build a series of 4,000 square foot single family houses on 1/2 acre lots along the Greenway abutting a 95-story office tower on the site of the Harbor Garage with a new 15,000 person stadium on the roof for the Revolution. I don't know...

If this is such an historic building, where is all the air handling equipment going to go. Are we going to have an Olive's level obscenity of duct work to vent this place?